Compelling New Dashboard Platform from Google
The Google Sites platform is now available and all of the business dashboard community should immediately explore this new option for BI dashboarding. At least for quick mockups and prototypes, although you’ll find them quite suitable for standalone business dashboard applications. The Google Sites Dashboard is part of the Google Apps offerring. That means it is available at no cost. Dashboard Spy readers - did you hear that? A free, powerful dashboarding tool from Google is now available.
Think of Google Sites as an instant collaboration and community platform. It’s very Sharepoint in it’s functionality and approach.
Now, let’s look at the functionality and screen templates available from Google Sites. Here are some screenshots of various layouts including the dashboard page type. Remember, the idea is collaboration so think wikis, blogs, sharepoint, etc.
If you want to take a look at how one person used Google sites to power their community, take a look at Rich Hoeg’s Engineering Learning.
Here are some annotated screenshots from him on the various Google sites page types (including the dashboard page type).
Tags: Google Sites Dashboard, Google Sites Page Types
Google are so cool. They really provide a very easy way of creating BI dashboards, even for non professionals.
However, they are still lacking, very much like the rest of the dashboard providers, in intergarting extensive analytic capabilities.
Dale
http://www.sisense.com
“Dashboards, Reports and Guided Analytics”
I use Google Site and I don’t think it is a “non professional” tool : powerful but quiet uneasy to use for everyone !
I found another free dashboarding tool based on Google Docs spreadsheet that is aimed to allow “non professionals” to design cool BI dashboards : livedashboard4team.org
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